I was doing some research and learned something interesting: that intermittent fasting and binge eating is the newest cycle of binging, meaning that many are thinking that fasting will help them lose weight but the reason they are overweight is because they are binge eaters.

The problem with this is … well, it’s not a problem, there are several problems!

First of all, going about weight loss in this way will not help you actually lose weight and keep it off. Why? Because when you’re overweight because you’re a binge eater and the method that you’re attempting to lose weight only intensifies your binge eating and cycles of binging, then in my personal opinion you’re moving into crazy town.

Yes, I said it: crazy town.

Forcing yourself to fast, which is going to lead to obsessing about food, watching the clock, waiting until the clock strikes zero and you’re off to the races binging on anything you can find. This is not only going to stop you from reaching a healthy weight and maintaining it for life, but it’s also going to drive you deeper into a fat mindset.

A fat mindset is a mindset grounded in Fear Attracting Thoughts (F.A.T.). Just consider this simple question: how many fears are driving you to binge eat? What about the simple fear of “I’m missing out” or “I’ll never get to eat ABC again if I start a diet or fast so I’d better eat all of ABC that I can buy in the entire grocery store now!!”

The bad news is the mindset of a binge eater does not lead to permanent weight loss.

The good news is that you CAN get a weight loss mindset and then you’ll be able to stop binge eating, stop trying crazy non-lifestyle weight loss fads and just plain and simple, learn how to live a healthy lifestyle without struggle to lose weight and keep it off.

Does it make sense to you that if you could just live a healthy lifestyle without it being any big deal, that then you’d be able to lose weight and keep it off?

NOTE: a healthy lifestyle means you eat only when physically hungry, you stop eating when physically full (not stuffed), you eat foods that work best in your body to release the fat, and you do all of this  without struggle while feeling fantastic about yourself. The opposite of a healthy lifestyle is doing fad diets (like intermittent fasting) for the sole purpose of losing weight while struggling to stick with it and obsessing about food which ends up leading to binge eating with an intensity that increases the longer you avoid healing the root of the eating disorder.

Intermittent Fasting and Binge Eating: The New Binging Cycle

So intermittent fasting and binge eating are the newest cycle of binging, according to what I’ve learned in my research. It’s really a problem for binge eaters who are trying to lose weight by using intermittent fasting.

Say what? Well yeah, it actually makes sense, on two levels: one being that from a practical, human level, if you allow yourself to get overly hungry then it’s obviously super easy to binge eat on anything you can find once the clock winds down to zero and your fasting period is done for the moment.

I know for myself that if I allow myself to go beyond the point of physical hunger until I get to the place where I’m famished then I can easily eat anything that is available especially anything unhealthy such as highly processed food. I suggest to my coaching clients to pay attention to their physical hunger, to fuel their body based on their physical hunger, and not allow themselves to get to the “famished level”.

I myself, use portion control with common sense eating, eating small portions every 2 to 3 hours. This is the only way I’ve ever found to easily release fat from the body and it’s definitely based on physical hunger. The thing is, if you don’t eat when you’re physically hungry then your body can easily go into starvation mode, which leads to the body hanging onto whatever calories you ingest when you do end up eating.

So the whole fasting gig doesn’t make a whole lotta sense to me, and personally it sounds like torture to make yourself hungry and obsessed with food, only to end up binging on the world as soon as your fast time is up. But hey, if you can do the intermittent fasting as a lifestyle, and it’s super healthy for you, and you LOVE it, and you LOVE yourself 100% fully and completely while living an ongoing lifestyle of intermittent fasting, then you’re not using that as a fad diet and that’s super cool.

Back to the second reason it makes a lot of sense that intermittent fasting is leading to intensified binge eating is because if a binge eater thinks she will lose weight by fasting, but she’s never healed her unhealthy eating behavior of binge eating, then of course holding herself back from her number one coping mechanism is going to intensify the severity of her binge eating once the fasting clock hits zero.

But hey, as you’re struggling with out-of-control binge eating just know that you’re not alone. There are millions out there who are all members of the overweight and obese population all who are struggling to lose weight and keep it off because they are unable to break free of their unhealthy eating behaviors, including binging.

Often Binge Eating is Not The Only Unhealthy Behavior the Overweight or Obese is Cycling In

You might even be struggling with more than binge eating but whatever your unhealthy behaviors are that have piled on the fat, frustration, and hopelessness that you’ll ever be able to lose weight and keep it off, they can all be resolved by getting a weight loss mindset.

A weight loss mindset is 92.8% of winning the battle with your weight. In fact, getting a weight loss mindset is critical if you are serious about losing weight and keeping it off.

If you do not get a weight loss mindset you will continue to struggle with binge eating for a lifetime. Your mindset is 92.8% of the challenge – get the right mindset, get a weight loss mindset, and you’ll already have won 92.8% of the battle. Intermittent fasting is not going to give you a weight loss mindset, nor will it stop your binge eating.

Another problem you can run into is that the longer you let your binge eating go without healing it, the worse it gets. Have you ever noticed this? I mean, the more time that goes by, the longer you struggle, the harder and harder it is to stop.

Intermittent Fasting and Binge Eating: The New Binging Cycle [Podcast #301]

In this episode of  The JoLynn Braley Show you’ll learn more about the fact that binge eating is more severely triggered when a binge eater is attempting to lose weight with intermittent fasting. Listen in and remember: you cannot change anything you aren’t aware of. Awareness is always the first step. For example, if you are serious about ending your binge eating then awareness is the first step towards making a decision to do something different, if you choose to make that decision for yourself.

Grab pen and paper to take notes as you’ll get questions to write down and write your answers to, pen on paper. You’ll get so much out of this Free iTunes Podcast when you write each question down on paper with pen and then write down your answer.

In this week’s episode you’ll learn:

• The newest binging cycle: intermittent fasting followed by binge eating followed by fasting and more binge eating
• Why you must heal the root of the problem
• The fact that the problem is not the food, the fat on your body, or your binge eating! These are all symptoms of the bigger problem. Fix THAT and you’ll finally hit a home run with the topic of your overeating and overweight!
• Powerful self-questions to write pen on paper and then answer for yourself pen on paper.

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Tune in for next week’s episode: What Natalie from Survivor Can Teach You about Permanent Weight Loss

I’m a big fan of survivor and when I was watching last night’s episode there was a scene that is a great learning segment for The JoLynn Braley Show. Tune in next week if you have been struggling to take action to change what you need to change in order to lose weight for good! HINT: you are not going to lose weight and keep it off without making real-life changes to your mindset and your behaviors.

Without making the necessary changes, you cannot get new results. Make sense?

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Sally’s Video: She Stopped Binge Eating with The Inner Self Diet

I said on episode #301 that I would post Sally’s video in this post so that you can watch it easily. Here it is!

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